Mill Girls and Machines: teacher key

Factories, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. How factories changed work, who worked in them, and what finally changed the rules.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

Who were the first large workforce in the Lowell cotton mills?
- Soldiers
- Young women known as mill girls (answer)
- Sailors
What put limits on child labor in the United States in 1938?
- A new elevator
- A fire
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (answer)
What does quality control do?
- Checks products so bad ones are found before they are sold (answer)
- Makes products cheaper
- Stops all work
Why does just-in-time stock the minimum number of parts?
- Parts are heavy
- Workers are tired
- A car can be built as soon as an order arrives (answer)
What does the word wages mean here?
- A kind of cloth
- Pay for work (answer)
- A machine